A collection of the several books and vvritings, given forth by that faithful servant of God and his people, George Fox, the Younger

AN EPISTLE UNTO All who love the Lord Jesus Christ in Sincerity, who are made partakers of the riches of his Grace, and meet together to wait upon him therein, to be read in their Meetings, in the Fear of the Lord.

DEAR Friends, whom the eternal God hath visited with his own Life and Power, and thereby hath called you out of the Darkness of the World, into his Marvellous Light, and hath begotten and quickned a Seed in you, unto which pertaineth the Promises of Life and Peace, and also hath opened a good understanding in you, by the measure of his Eternal Spirit, and hath brought you in∣to a feeling, and a sensibleness, and a savour of that which ministers and reacheth to (and refresheth) his own Seed. Oh Friends, great is the Love of the Lord God unto you, and large is his Eternal Riches; let not his ever∣lasting Love be forgotten by any of you, neither slight nor neglect his rich Mercy; but dear Friends, dwell in the living measure of his Grace, and hearken diligently unto the Voice of the Lamb; so shall you be refreshed with the living Presence of the Father, and the Foun∣tain

of Life shall be enlarged unto you, whereby the Babe of God shall be strengthned, and grow up in stature. And when you are met together to wait upon the Lord, Oh! feel his living Gift in your selves, and be obedient to the motions and operations thereof, that so the Presence and Power of the Eternal God may be felt and enjoyed in your Meetings, (and at other times) for the bringing down, and working out, of all that which is contrary to himself in you, and for the working you into the express Image of his own Glory, and for the bringing you into the perfect Obedience of his own Life and Power, that the Nature of the Lamb (which takes away the sins) ye may all grow into, that so the Patience of Christ may be felt and witnessed in you all, and that it may have its perfect Work in you, that therein you may possess your Souls; then shall the Lord enlarge your understandings, and ye shall grow into the meek quiet Spirit, wherein your savour and discerning shall be en∣creased, and ye shall feel the gentle leadings of the invi∣sible Life, whereby satisfaction and refreshment shall be received unto the Seed Immortal.

So dear hearts, let the living Measure of the Eternal Father of Life, and Power, and Wisdom, be your con∣tinual Stay and Habitation, that so, if any shall come among you, that are out of the true savour and feeling of the Life in themselves, and shall act or speak any thing among you, that is out of the Life, that ye then may not be drawn out of the savour and feeling there∣by, but wait ye singly in the innocent, patient, long-suf∣fering Spirit of Christ, and that will preserve you out of the fretting, and murmuring, and thoughts, and rea∣soning, and out of the enmity, and it will keep you settled and quiet, and in Unity with God, and with all who abide in his Life; and this will reach the Witness in them, who are turned from it, into the rambling un∣settled

state; and if ye feel the Seed burdened, then wait in the true Patience, in the fervent Love to the Truth, and then the Lord's Counsel you will know, and his Wisdom you will receive, and his Power you will feel, whereby (as you are obedient thereto) the burden will be removed, and the evil will be judged, (that caused the burden) and the Seed will be refreshed, and the Unity of the Faith will be known, and the weak there will be pre∣served, and so the Peace will be Witnessed, and the Truth will be adorned, and its Enemies shall be ashamed.

Oh my Friends, dear is the everlasting unchangeable Truth of God unto me, which he hath made known in and among us in this his Day; and dear and precious are all ye unto me, who abide in it, for therein is no Schisms, nor Parties, nor Rents, nor Envy; for who goe into those, first goes from the simplicity of the naked Truth, in which (they that abide in it) the Patience, and For∣bearance, and Unity is felt by them; and such as go out of it, must feel the Judgement; but all who abides in the Faith, shall not come into Condemnation.

So the LORD GOD Almighty of Heaven and Earth, preserve and keep you all in Patience, in Inno∣cency, in Uprightness, and in Obedience, unto the living measure of his Power manifested in you, Amen.

Now Friends, that which ministreth unto the Seed Im∣mortal, know that Ministration in your selves, for that is profitable, and that is durable, and fadeth not away; and let the exercise of your minds be in that which is li∣ving of God, when you are met together (and at other times) that so ye may be kept out of that which comes to an end, in the feeling of the Power of an endless Life; that so the Seed of Life may be raised up in you all, and ye established in it, to live in it for ever; in which Seed, the end of words is witnessed. Oh Friends, there cannot be another Truth, or Power, or Saviour, Preach∣ed

unto you, that you are to mind, than that ye have already heard and felt, but the same you are to wait to feel an enlargement in; Therefore be valiant for the Lord, and prize the worth of his unchangeable Truth, and watch and be diligent, that his Spirit of Life and Power may quicken you, and that his Virtue and Nou∣rishment may be felt and lived in, whereby Fruits of E∣ternal Righteousness and Praises over all, may be given unto him, and that ye may be preserved fervent unto your first Love in him, whose Eternal Day is dawned (and broke forth) of Salvation, of Life, of Power, of Immortality; Glory, Eternal Praises everlastingly, be ren∣dred unto Him, from the meek, lowly, quiet, peaceable Spirit, which is risen, and arising in his Babes, and ten∣der Plants, whereby he stayes, and settles, and satisfies them, even in the day of Tryal, and in the day of Pro∣sperity.

I am your Dear and tender Friend and Brother in the Power of God, in which I labour, for the gathering of the Seed, for the bringing into, and keeping in the Unity of the Spirit, which is the bond of Peace. George Fox, the younger.